Tieghan Gerard grew up in the Colorado mountains as one of seven children. When her dad took too long to get dinner on the table every night, she started doing the cooking--at age 14. Ever-determined to reign in the chaos of her big family, Tieghan found her place in the kitchen. She had a knack for creating unique dishes, which led her to launch her blog, Half Baked Harvest. Since then, millions of people have fallen in love with her fresh take on comfort food, stunning photography, and charming life in the mountains. While it might be a trek to get to Tieghan's barn-turned-test kitchen, her creativity shines here: dress up that cheese board with a real honey comb; decorate a standard salad with spicy, crispy sweet potato fries; serve stir fry over forbidden black rice; give French Onion Soup an Irish kick with Guinness and soda bread; bake a secret ingredient into your apple pie (hint: it's molasses). And a striking photograph accompanies every recipe, making Half Baked Harvest Cookbook a feast your eyes, too. Whether you need to get dinner on the table for your family tonight or are planning your next get-together with friends, Half Baked Harvest Cookbook has your new favorite recipe.

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"...recipes veer from Braised Pork Tamale Burrito Bowls to Crispy Buffalo Quinoa Bites with no logic other than flat-out good taste." --Epicurious

"Gerard's collection of recipes is filled with delights for weekday nights and weekend revels." --BookPage

L'autore

TIEGHAN GERARD is a food photographer, stylist, and recipe developer. Her blog, Half Baked Harvest, features a hearty mix of savory, sweet, healthy, and indulgent recipes... with a good amount of chocolate. She believes every diet should include a little bit of chocolate because balance is the key to life!

This cookbook is a great resource for any home cook, both for those who already know HBH and those discovering Tieghan for the first time. I stumbled across HBH a few years ago looking for a beer bread recipe and have been following Tieghan's blog ever since. I've enjoyed everything I made off her blog, so I pre-ordered this hoping to find more of the same amazing, crave-able, doable variety plus great photos of every dish. Unsurprisingly, Teighan exceeded my expectations.

The HBH cookbook contains the same mix of healthy and decadent offerings, ranging from meat-y and cheese-y to vegetarian, as the blog does. At first glance, I thought there were a number of recipes that overlapped with the blog, but actually they've all been tweaked (updated? improved?) a little. That 5-ingredient beer bread which first won me over is here, in a different (and better) iteration as a honey beer bread. It tastes even better than the original. The cheesy quinoa bake from her blog is here but again, slightly different (and possibly a little healthier). Similar story for the French onion soup (now Irish French onion soup). The only obvious exceptions are items like the butter chicken, which is on her blog to feature this cookbook release.

So far, I've made that beer bread, the amazing corn and blueberry salsa, the BBQ short ribs, the ginger-miso eggplant, and the miso beef and ramen noodle stir-fry (I didn't cook my steak quite as long as she cooks hers). Everything has been exceptional, well-balanced, and totally approachable for any one interested in cooking at home. You'll need some pretty standard spices, and perhaps a bit of patience for long and slow cooking, but otherwise there are no fancy ingredients or expensive kitchen items required to pull these recipes together.

Tieghan has a great voice, and interesting story, and shares recipes full of bold flavor that have been clearly well-tested.

I preordered this book and couldn't wait to get it. Let me just say, it did not disappoint. The pictures are beautiful and the recipes all sound amazing. I want to make literally every single recipe. So far, I've made the honey butter beer bread, Cajun shrimp & rice, and the slow cooker butter chicken. All super delicious! Buy this book. You will be glad that you did!

Half Baked Harvest Cookbook is beautiful. All the recipes have photos and each look both rustic and elegant. I recipes I've tried were very easy to pull off. Bacon and Harissa Steamed Mussels with Parmesan Fries (insanely delicious!), Apple Ricotta Pancakes (confession: I didn't make the bacon butter) were a great Sunday brunch hit when the family was visiting, and slow cooker butter chicken. YES, there are even slow cooker recipes. The recipes feel healthy and hearty with use of good grains and fresh ingredients. You will not regret purchasing this Half Baked Harvest Cookbook! I can't wait to give a copy to all the newlyweds in our family this holiday season.

I have followed the authors blog since it began and I can honestly say that every single recipe from the daily blog was amazing. Her first cookbook will certainly exceed my expectations. The photos are beautiful and so helpful to insure you plate the dish as it was intended; the mix of flavors, textures, and colors create a work of art. I So love her story of how she got to this point in her life--- a cook with an infectious personality and crazy good skills . This girl is really young and I am sure she has great things in store for us. Buy it---You can't lose when using her recipes!!!

Loved the blog for quite some time, and the cookbook is equally amazing. The recipes are generally quite creative; not the average fare you find in most cookbooks. I've only tried one recipe from the book so far, but have made several from the author's blog, and they have all turned out amazing. I highly recommend the cookbook, and suggest following the blog as well.